Top Traders Unplugged2 Juni 2014

TTU03 How To Get Predictable Returns ft. Mike Dever of Brandywine Asset Management – 1of2

On today’s show I am talking to Mike Dever, the Founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management. Mike is a Divergent Thinking Systematic Investment Manager and Author of the best selling book “Jackass Investing”. Mike has been trading for almost 4 decades and shares a wealth of insight to how he has stayed successful and how his trading approach and research has stayed current in an ever changing financial landscape.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

The Evolution of Mike’s Trading
How Mike almost got in to business with Richard Donchian
How they developed a systematic trading model in the 1980s
How Mike met and invested with Paul Tudor Jones, John W. Henry and was the first outside investor in Transtrend
How Mike went from being a discretionary trader to become fully systematic when launching the Benchmark Program, and Why
About the experience of running the Brandywine Benchmark Program in in the ‘90s
How Mike discovered the importance of Portfolio Allocation in the 1980s
The Story of Developing the Predictive Diversification Portfolio Allocation Model
The Entrepreneurial Storm that Kept Mike away from Trading and Brandywine for Years
The story of developing the Brandywine Symphony Program
How many people it takes to run a system with more than 1,000 strategy/market combinations
Exploring the track record of Brandywine Symphony Program
Why one should avoid making decisions based on single return drivers
5 Themes in Brandywine’s Asset Allocation Strategy: Fundamental, Sentiment, Event, Arbitrage and Alpha Hedge
How Marginal Cost of Production Works as a Return Driver
Are the strategies from the 1980’s just as effective today?
What is directional arbitrage?

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Jackass Investing by Mike Dever
Learn about Richard Donchian the Grandfather of Trend Following
Learn about Poul Tudor Jones of Robin Hood Foundation
Learn about John W. Henry

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